From: "André Goddard Rosa" <andre.goddard-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
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Subject: [PATCH] vfork.2: Improve text legibility and fix verbs tense
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:51:33 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8bf37780910180551g23f00ff2x1f2fca413a4b4842@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Goddard=20Rosa?= <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:44:17 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] vfork.2: Improve text legibility and fix verbs tense
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Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
diff --git a/man2/vfork.2 b/man2/vfork.2
index ef86812..4f73f80 100644
--- a/man2/vfork.2
+++ b/man2/vfork.2
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ is a special case of
It is used to create new processes without copying the page tables of
the parent process.
It may be useful in performance-sensitive applications
-where a child will be created which then immediately issues an
+where a child will be created which then will immediately issue an
.BR execve (2).
.PP
.BR vfork ()
@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ and to create a unique task structure for the child.
However, in the bad old days a
.BR fork (2)
would require making a complete copy of the caller's data space,
-often needlessly, since usually immediately afterwards an
+often needlessly, since usually immediately afterwards a
+.BR vfork ()
+an
.BR exec (3)
is done.
Thus, for greater efficiency, BSD introduced the
@@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ child was using its resources.
The use of
.BR vfork ()
was tricky: for example, not modifying data
-in the parent process depended on knowing which variables are
+in the parent process depended on knowing which variables were
held in a register.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
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From 33671da01189ff40533708c1d81e6d78bfa5e312 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Goddard=20Rosa?= <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:44:17 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] vfork.2: Improve text legibility and fix verbs tense
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Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
diff --git a/man2/vfork.2 b/man2/vfork.2
index ef86812..4f73f80 100644
--- a/man2/vfork.2
+++ b/man2/vfork.2
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ is a special case of
It is used to create new processes without copying the page tables of
the parent process.
It may be useful in performance-sensitive applications
-where a child will be created which then immediately issues an
+where a child will be created which then will immediately issue an
.BR execve (2).
.PP
.BR vfork ()
@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ and to create a unique task structure for the child.
However, in the bad old days a
.BR fork (2)
would require making a complete copy of the caller's data space,
-often needlessly, since usually immediately afterwards an
+often needlessly, since usually immediately afterwards a
+.BR vfork ()
+an
.BR exec (3)
is done.
Thus, for greater efficiency, BSD introduced the
@@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ child was using its resources.
The use of
.BR vfork ()
was tricky: for example, not modifying data
-in the parent process depended on knowing which variables are
+in the parent process depended on knowing which variables were
held in a register.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
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